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Sack the lot of them i say. Theres millions out of work so plenty of people willing to take these jobs on. Theres a lot of people qualified and with many years of experience looking for work. Give them a chance. Sack these strikers. Britains economy is weak and strikes like this will only...

you dont need to be gas safe to install rads and pipework. I get someone else to come and fit the boiler, as thats where the gas safe requirement is. I thought your the gas safe registered dude, surely you should no this? Why is IronNaz, the novice layabout, lazy, clueless yet handsome diy...

well considering no plumber would take me on, i've had to learn as i go, taking on jobs for friends and family. Its given me a decent level of experience. nonsense. you guys just dont want any rivals. firstly i work full time in IT and because of this have had to turn down a lot of work...

Oh quit your whining you silly old fart. Tail, insert, blah de blah, call it what you want. You know what i mean. :roll:

As ADL says, if someone is willing to take you on then this is the ideal way in as you will pick up a lot working alongside an experienced plumber. However you can also complete a City and Guilds/NVQ course. I started with Level 2 Plumbing, i learnt a lot from that course including hands on...

The 12 wraps ptfe is for the thread on the tail going into the rad. Although i do generally wrap a couple of turns of ptfe on most threads.

Its simply a "good practice" i was taught at college by my plumbing lecturers who worked in this field for many years. Ive taken it on board and always done this. As i've seen many joints in customers homes with PTFE tape on them, ive just accepted this as the norm.

Count yourself among them IronNaz some off you guys are very rude do you know that? Anyway i'm certainly not a cowboy. Considering my parents came from India, i'm indian :) Maybe my company signs could read :"You've tried the cowboys, now try the indians" :lol:

well i've seen ptfe threads on almost all houses i have been to with central heating, so there must be a lot of amateurs about.

i fail to see why its an issue, the PTFE tape on the threads wont cause any problems, if anything it can only bring benefit. Everyone does things slightly different, and he was in the plumbing trade for decades so his tips surely come from experience.

this was actually a tip given to me by my plumbing tutor. Its never failed.

As a relatively novice plumber, there will be issues which i wont have come across, issues that you may see as very basic. But i've you've not come across it before, you will need to ask someone for advice.

Yes. Also wrap about 12 turns of ptfe tape on the thread. Pull tight and keep it neat though, as once you tighten the nuts, the tape may push outwards from the sides and be visible. Went to a radiator job last week where the gas safe installer had done this, with the ptfe tape clearly...

I fully appreciate what you are saying Agile, but as this is a Diy site, i thought it would be worth asking the poster to try and resolve this simple issue themselves. If they dont want to try it, or unable to balance it themselves, then by all means someone local to him can contact him to...

Are you being serious? You could do this yourself with a bit of guidance. Shut all valves on all radiators. Then start with the radiator closest to the boiler. Open the valve slightly. Then go to the next radiator. Open valve a little bit more then the 1st rad. Then go to the third...

Firstly, this has never happened and i have fitted dozens upon dozens of these over the years. BUT should this ever happen, i'm sure public liability insurance would cover it. If not, then yes i would pay out of my own pocket for any damages i may have caused to the custoemrs property...

I wouldnt Well to be honest i would not work on a boiler as i am not qualified to do so. BUT i have heard of numerous cases of boiler engineers failing to repair a boiler yet still charging silly rates for failing to repair it. Just saying.

The engineer is right. In theory X300 should only be used for new systems. In theory they should have used x400 or x800, which is for older systems. I assume the x300 is not as strong as the x400, both can be left in the system for a few days then flushed out. The x800 should be used...

Thank you for your feedback, i appreciate this. I understand the flexi fittings are not ideal but i always ask the customer how the layout will be and get them to ok it before fitting things. The layout of that bathroom means their is a seperate cold feed pipe going under and aroudn the bath...

If i was to do the above, that would make me your bog standard heating/boiler engineer that charges high rates for faults they dont end up fixing :lol: Thankfully for me, i will not even attempt a job if i am unable to do it. The only time i will ever charge anything will be for materials i...